AMD Radeon HD 8950 OEM vs AMD Radeon RX 5500 OEM
GPU Specs Compare
Graphics Card
Release Date
Jan 2013
Oct 2019
Generation
Sea Islands
Navi
Type
Desktop
Desktop
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
Base Clock
850 MHz
1500 MHz
Boost Clock
925 MHz
1845 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
1750 MHz
Memory
Memory Size
3GB
4GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR6
Memory Bus
384bit
128bit
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
224.0GB/s
Render Config
Compute Units
28
22
Shading Units
1792
1408
TMUs
112
88
ROPs
32
32
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
-
L2 Cache
768 KB
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
59.04 GPixel/s
Texture Rate
103.6 GTexel/s
162.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float)
3.315 TFLOPS
5.196 TFLOPS
FP64 (double)
828.8 GFLOPS
324.7 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.39 TFLOPS
Graphics Processor
GPU Name
Tahiti
Navi 14
GPU Variant
Tahiti PRO(215-0821056)
Navi 14 XT(215-0932220)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
RDNA 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
TSMC
Process Size
28 nm
7 nm
Transistors
4.313 billion
6.4 billion
Die Size
352 mm²
158 mm²
Board Design
TDP
200W
110W
Suggested PSU
550 W
300 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Graphics Features
DirectX
12 (11_1)
12 (12_1)
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
2.1
Vulkan
1.2
1.3
Shader Model
5.1
6.5